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i m stephen sackur. remember the tumultuous events in the early 1990s in eastern europe? from the wreckage of the soviet empire, a new, freer more prosperous region emerged anchored in the eu and nato. the european bank of reconstruction and development was created to foster that transformation. my guest today is bank president, sir suma chakrabarti. these days, many of his investment projects are actually in turkey, central asia and north africa. has mission creep undermined the values of the ebrd? suma chakra barti, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. would you agree with me that your bank has moved an awful long way from those early days and from its original mission? no, i wouldn t. i would certainly agree with you that we have expanded our geography, but i would say the mission is the same. private sector development, the creation of affective markets, we re still actually operating in our traditional region but because of the success of that business model, our ....
million, mainly young people, in pakistan. the ministry of education says around 22 million children most of them girls don t go to school. not even half the female population is literate. women are generally treated more harshly than men. life in the countryside is particularly tough for them. many flee to the cities, but even there, they re not safe. reporter: this is qandeel baloch s final resting place. she was murdered at the age of 26. her life and brutal death shocked pakistan and left her family broken. mr. baloch: qandeel means flower, and she was one. some people have said bad things about her. her brother believed that nonsense. he murdered her for the family honor, but that s not in the koran. allah will punish him for what he did. reporter: the balochs world collapsed around them. their daughter is in her grave and their son is in prison. qandeel baloch grew up in this village in the heart of pakistan. but she felt restricted there and decided to move ....
how a young man can become radicalised. talk to us about the libyan connection. details of which are becoming clearer. the most important thing to point out is it s not one thing or the other. it is tempting for people to try and figure out what is the one hell of an element that radicalised him. the libyan angle is informative. it tells you and exposes a family in flux, a family that has not found a sta ble flux, a family that has not found a stable footing either in libya or in manchester. his father was an exile, a political exile, in opposition to colonel gadaffi. as everyone knows, he has maltreated and resulted in hundreds of thousands if not millions of libyans leaving the country during his tenure. the fact they were here in the first place is a reflection of the fact that there was a dictator presiding over the population in libya. number one. the angle that concerns and oppressive dictatorial environment in the arab world and larger parts of the middle east ....
you may have noticed this event originally called for our speaker bill fowler to be here. he is my predecessor at the historical society, which many of you already know. he is a distinguished repressor of history at northeastern professor of history at northeastern. we realized that such a fundamental story of the irish in boston would benefit from additional perspectives. he suggested, i will give him credit, this conversation would have more depth if we invited others, leading subject experts on the irish famine in the american response. we are pleased bill is joined tonight by catherine shannon, the guest historian of exhibition at westfield state university. we have christine can nearly, author and founding director of ireland s great hunger institute at quinnipiac university. please welcome me in joining join me in welcoming, bill, christine, and kathleen. [applause] thank you very much. thank you to all of your staff and trustees for hosting this exhibit. ....
not even half the female population is literate. women are generally treated more harshly than men. life in the countryside is particularly tough for them. many flee to the cities, but even there, they re not safe. reporter: this is qandeel baloch s final resting place. she was murdered at the age of 26. her life and brutal death shocked pakistan and left her family broken. mr. baloch: qandeel means flower, and she was one. some people have said bad things about her. her brother believed that nonsense. he murdered her for the family honor, but that s not in the koran. allah will punish him for what he did. reporter: the balochs world collapsed around them. their daughter is in her grave and their son is in prison. qandeel baloch grew up in this village in the heart of pakistan. but she felt restricted there and decided to move away. she thrust herself into the limelight online. her music videos and shows challenged pakistan s social taboos. every click of her page br ....